Books author - "Bertrand Russell"
Description The Problems of Philosophy, published in 1912, is an introductory book for a beginner in philosophical studies. In this book, the author attempts to provoke a discussion by posing different problems. The book covers a wide variety of theories proposed by philosophers like Plato, Descartes, Hume, Aristotle, etc. In view of these theories, Russell poses questions about the nature of reality and our perception of it. While the book refrains from providing absolute solutions to the
Syndicalists wereachieved.My own opinion--which I may as well indicateat the outset--is that pure Anarchism, though itshould be the ultimate ideal, to which society shouldcontinually approximate, is for the present impossible,and would not survive more than a year or twoat most if it were adopted. On the other hand, bothMarxian Socialism and Syndicalism, in spite of manydrawbacks, seem to me calculated to give rise to ahappier and better world than that in which we live.I do not, however,
table. Our next chapter, therefore, will be concerned with the reasons for supposing that there is a real table at all.Before we go farther it will be well to consider for a moment what it is that we have discovered so far. It has appeared that, if we take any common object of the sort that is supposed to be known by the senses, what the senses immediately tell us is not the truth about the object as it is apart from us, but only the truth about certain sense-data which, so far as we can see,
suggestions; also to Mr. A. Wohlgemuth for muchvery useful information as regards important literature. I havealso to acknowledge the help of the editor of this Library ofPhilosophy, Professor Muirhead, for several suggestions by whichI have profited.The work has been given in the form of lectures both in Londonand Peking, and one lecture, that on Desire, has been publishedin the Athenaeum. There are a few allusions to China in this book, all of whichwere written before I had been in China, and
Description The Problems of Philosophy, published in 1912, is an introductory book for a beginner in philosophical studies. In this book, the author attempts to provoke a discussion by posing different problems. The book covers a wide variety of theories proposed by philosophers like Plato, Descartes, Hume, Aristotle, etc. In view of these theories, Russell poses questions about the nature of reality and our perception of it. While the book refrains from providing absolute solutions to the
Syndicalists wereachieved.My own opinion--which I may as well indicateat the outset--is that pure Anarchism, though itshould be the ultimate ideal, to which society shouldcontinually approximate, is for the present impossible,and would not survive more than a year or twoat most if it were adopted. On the other hand, bothMarxian Socialism and Syndicalism, in spite of manydrawbacks, seem to me calculated to give rise to ahappier and better world than that in which we live.I do not, however,
table. Our next chapter, therefore, will be concerned with the reasons for supposing that there is a real table at all.Before we go farther it will be well to consider for a moment what it is that we have discovered so far. It has appeared that, if we take any common object of the sort that is supposed to be known by the senses, what the senses immediately tell us is not the truth about the object as it is apart from us, but only the truth about certain sense-data which, so far as we can see,
suggestions; also to Mr. A. Wohlgemuth for muchvery useful information as regards important literature. I havealso to acknowledge the help of the editor of this Library ofPhilosophy, Professor Muirhead, for several suggestions by whichI have profited.The work has been given in the form of lectures both in Londonand Peking, and one lecture, that on Desire, has been publishedin the Athenaeum. There are a few allusions to China in this book, all of whichwere written before I had been in China, and